Tony Sidaway wrote:
My understanding of the GFDL is that it means you could even stand on a street corner and sell bound copies of its content for a fee. Someone will undoubtedly correct me if this is wrong. Free as in speech, not free as in beer.
Yep. In fact, the Free Software Foundation, which drafted the GFDL, is pretty adamant about the right to sell commercially being part of the freedom involved in capital-F Free. The only thing you're required to do is license any changes you make under the same license, and provide a "transparent" (i.e. machine-readable and human-editable) copy of the document. In fact, if some enterprising company were to look at Wikipedia, sort through the articles for 10,000 good ones, copyedit and clean those up, and then bind it in a nice set of volumes, that'd be perfectly within both the letter and the spirit of the GFDL, as long as they allowed us to reuse their copyedits and other changes in our own version.
-Mark